Unless other wise noted, everything below will be conducted from Google Webmaster Tools.

If you don't have a Google account yet, you'll need one. GMail is free, and Google Groups is a vital resource for problem research. Anytime there is a problem with your blog, you should be posting into Blogger Help Forum.

Return to GWT and Sitemaps. In the box for "Add/Test Sitemap", type the needed portion of the URL, and hit "Submit Sitemap".

This will update the GWT Sitemaps list, with the advice

You have added the URL of your sitemap.

In the list My Sitemaps you should now see the added sitemap URL.

You are now done with the initial add process.
If you ever rename the blog sometime in the future, be sure to create a new Webmaster Tools entry, with a new sitemap.
When you update your blog, if you don't update regularly, use the form below. If you update regularly, it's likely that the Google bots already have your blog in a schedule, and the form will be redundant.

Comments

I found your advice on adding a sitemap to your blog in the help section. Like Leonid I couldn't get the sitemap generated. What did finally work was the atom.xmlcode. Why is this information only found here? I searched google and chat forum and finally search blogger help as last resort. In the past, I have not found blogger that helpful. Thank you

Hi Chuck...you tutorial is awesome...it really helped me launch my blog site, thanks a lot...but i'm suing blogger, and under Settings->Site Feed, I don't see a sitemap URL, so how can I add a sitemap on google?

i've put this url in (add your sitemap)http://allcarconcept.blogspot.com/atom.xmland i get this msg "General HTTP error: 404 not foundWe encountered an error while trying to access your Sitemap. Please ensure your Sitemap follows our guidelines and can be accessed at the location you provided and then resubmit. "

Hmm, I don't quite get this. In Google Webmaster Tools, when I look at my sitemap, I only get "URL not allowed" errors with my atom feed sitemap myblog.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default for all urls, since the posts have urls such as myblog.blogspot.com/2007/09/match.html - and I can't find a setting for treating my feed anyway else on blogger.com

Thanks for this useful advice, using the feed given in Blogger settings directly didn't work, but using your url with atom.xml at the end did enable the sitemap to be created. e.g. http://bloggerstatusforreal.blogspot.com/atom.xml

Thank you so much for this site. I have a very dumb question. You say to use the "Ping google sitemap" anytime you change your blog. Does that mean anytime I add a post? Or what? Sorry for the confusion.

When to ping is up to your discretion. I would probably do so maybe once a week, if I had written something especially interesting. I have heard that being pinged too often causes you to lose reputation with the search engines though, so no more than that, probably.

I'am a complete beginner to blogging and have just created my first blog. I've been trying to find clear information on how to add a sitemap to my blog over the last couple of days. Your information on how to do this has been extremely helpful. I have now added a google sitemap to my blog following your instructions. I can stop pulling my hair out now on how to do this thank you.

Hi chuck,I have problem with my Site Map.Earlier, I subsribed to feedburner and let them indexing my blog by individual post url.Then I found the webmaster Tools and tried to have them indexing my atom.xml feed for the same blog.The result was error on the sitemap with this message "URL not allowed This url is not allowed for a Sitemap at this location" and the error url is,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Jendelaiklan/~3/272278257/iklan-anda_14.html.FYI, I used the same method in another blog of mine sligtly different which feedburner indexing this blog by its main url and webmaster tools have no problem indexing its atom.xml. I'm confuse and completely lost.If you in anyway could figure out what mistake have I made, please advise me on solving this problem. Maybe it has something to do with code in the Template?? I'm lost.

Chuck, I've lost track of how many pages I've already read on The Real Blogger Status, but this is truly the best site I've seen about Blogger. Thanks so much. I would have never added a sitemap or keywords to my blog without your help.

My one question is...do I really need to ping Google sitemaps every time I add a new post? I thought I read somewhere else that pinging was automatic.

Anyways, thanks again. I done plenty of tweaking and now I'm ready to concentrate fully on creating more content.

Thank you so much for putting this up. I really had no clue that so much had to be done to appear on Google. I first tried just adding my blog http://figuringoutlinux.blogspot.com/. I found out that atom.xml only here.

i've an error when submit sitemap http://warnetconnexxion.info/rss.xml or http://warnetconnexxion.info/atom.xmlgoogle said "General HTTP error: 404 not foundWe encountered an error while trying to access your Sitemap. Please ensure your Sitemap follows our guidelines and can be accessed at the location you provided and then resubmit."

Hey Chuck!!! You're the greatest!!!I'm beginner blogger, a bloginner, and I was going crazy looking for that xml whatever, can't find it.atom.xml solved the issue.But i have a question, do i need to add atom.xml everytime i add a new post on my blog or does it do it automatically??? Thanks again sir!!!

I'm feeling completely dim because i can't follow even the first step on this post - I've searched over my dashboard page but I can't find the link for 'sitemaps'...I've looked over the page 3 times! Can you tell me where it is?

Whats the difference between adding atom.xml and /feeds/post/default?alt=rss sitemap??

"atom.xml" and "/feeds/post/default" is the same content, as is "rss.xml" and "/feeds/post/default?alt=rss". The difference is the URL - "atom.xml" and "rss.xml" are located in the root of the blog, while "/feeds/post/default" and "/feeds/post/default?alt=atom", and "/feeds/post/default?alt=rss" are not located in the root of the blog.

I have found this information very useful and the only article that has been successful in helping me submit a sitemap. I have a couple questions for clarity please:

1. I have added sitemaps for atom feeds and rss feeds in both old and new formats - is this redundant?

2. Before finding your blog, I unsuccessfully attempted to generate a sitemap using http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/ Now that I have added the feeds in the sitemap, is it still necessary to generate a sitemap for the entire blog to be added to GWT?

3. I believe I need to add a sitemap for each page of my blog, but have not been successful. One page is http://airo-cross.blogspot.com/p/welcome-to-airo.html and I tried to submit a sitemap using p/welcome-to-airo.html Could you tell me how to add sitemaps for each of these pages? I have 10.

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